The cast of As you like it
The people who make As you like it move — what they want, who they love, who they hate, and how each one fits the story. Tap any name to read more.
Rosalind
Witty heroine who disguises herself as a man to teach love's truth · almost fourteen
Orlando
Youngest son and romantic protagonist; transforms from silenced servitude to articulate lover · Sixteen or so
Celia
Rosalind's inseparable companion; the duke's daughter who chooses exile over separation · Young woman, peer of Rosalind
Touchstone
Licensed fool and witty commentator; voice of pragmatic earthiness and verbal deflation
Jaques
A melancholy courtier and philosophical observer; the play's conscience and its skeptic
Oliver de Boys
Eldest brother; cruel usurper transformed by grace · Adult
Duke Senior
Rightful duke in exile; wise father and moral anchor · Middle-aged to elderly
Corin
A working shepherd; voice of practical wisdom and honest labour
Silvius
A young shepherd hopelessly in love with Phebe; embodies the pastoral lover devoted beyond reason
Phebe
A disdainful shepherdess who falls in love with Ganymede
Duke Frederick
Tyrannical usurper; antagonist who banishes Rosalind and drives the plot into exile
Le Beau
A courtier and messenger; purveyor of gossip and sporting news
Audrey
A goatherd and reluctant bride, caught between Touchstone's wit and her own simplicity
Amiens
A courtier and musician in the exiled Duke Senior's forest retinue
William
Country youth and hapless suitor · 25
Adam
Loyal elderly servant; the moral conscience of the play · Nearly eighty
Charles
The duke's wrestler; instrument of Oliver's malice
First Lord
Courtier and attendant to Duke Senior; witness to Jaques's melancholy
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